A holiday event from the past.

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Events

 
Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture: To Free a Family
Sunday, February 12, 2012 -2:00pm to 4:00pm-FREE!
Stagville welcomes Dr. Sydney Nathans, Professor Emeritus of History with Duke University. His most recent publication, To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker is available February 2012. This book explores the story of Mary Walker, an enslaved woman at Stagville plantation who in August 1848 fled the Bennehan/Cameron family for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Mary Walker was not reunited with her family until the end of the Civil War. Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family brings an often untold story of the Civil War era to life. This program is free and open to the public.

Stagville Under the Stars!
Saturday, February 18, 2012 -7:30pm to 9:30pm-FREE!
Stagville will partner with Morehead Planetarium again to celebrate Black History Month! We will begin inside with storytelling focusing on the astronomy and night sky myths and legends told in African cultures. Step inside original structures from the 1700s and 1800s where interpreters can answer questions about the lives of enslaved people or peer through the planetariums telescopes at Mars, Jupiter, and maybe even Venus (view permitting)! The program will wrap up with a constellation tour looking at the same stars as our ancestors. Fun for the whole family! Expand your universe, bring your friends and family, and observe the sky. This program is free and open to the public.

PAST EVENTS:

“Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters”
Saturday, December 3, 2011
11:00am to 4:00pm
Come celebrate the holidays at Historic Stagville Saturday. “Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters,” one of our largest annual events, allows guests to see and take part in traditions that were part of Christmas celebrations for both the planter family and the enslaved community. We recreate the experience of holiday festivities through vendors, artisans, decorations, crafts, games, food, and music. This event is free and open to the public. Visitors can walk through an 18th century plantation home decorated for the holidays and original slave quarters from the 1850s as they hear traditional music, support their local artists, and buy holiday gifts.

Stagville Under the Stars!
Thursday, June 9, 2011 -8:30pm to 10:00pm-FREE!
To kick off our summer events Stagville will partner with Morehead Planetarium presenting a program that focuses on the astronomy and night sky myths and legends told in African cultures, as well as the related stories told by scientists today. Step inside original slave quarters from the 1850s where interpreters can answer questions about the lives of enslaved people or peer through the planetariums telescopes at the Moon and Saturn. The program will wrap up with a constellation tour looking at the same stars as our ancestors. Fun for the whole family! Expand your universe, bring your blankets, and observe the sky.

Earlie E. Thorpe Memorial Lecture
Sunday, October 16, 2011
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will deliver this year’s Earlie E. Thorpe Memorial Lecture at Historic Stagville. Dr. Lowery recently published Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (University of North Carolina Press). This annual lecture at Historic Stagville is given in honor of Dr. Thorpe, an important scholar of the history of African Americans, who taught at North Carolina Central University from 1962 to 1989. Dr. Lowery’s lecture will focus on the history of the Lumbees in North Carolina, including a discussion of Henry Berry Lowry, who led a multiracial band of outlaws during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
The program is free and open to the public. In addition to the lecture the jazz band Quintessence, led by Quinton Parker, will perform. Refreshments will be served.